Top Obama fundraiser Jodie Evans stated she used C-SPAN credentials without the cable news outlet's knowledge at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul last week.

Also, her Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin bragged to the press at the Democratic National Convention that she had convention press credentials under the name of a Christian radio netweork.

Evans, who has been a part of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign finance operations since the beginning of his run for the White House in February 2007, charged the stage when Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was making her acceptance speech. She claimed to have been given a convention pass by a disgruntled Republican delegate.

Another Code Pink member, Rae Abileah, was videotaped by CNS News at the Republican convention wearing the stolen ID of Jo Mannies, a reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which she tried to hide when confronted on camera by someone who knows Mannies.

In an article about the theft of Mannies' ID published today, the Jefferson County Journal reports Evans reaction to the controversy:

Jon Yinger, owner and president of the Michigan-based Christian radio network filed a report with the Denver police alerting them to Benjamin's fraudlent use of his company's name. Yinger says that there was no response from the police after his initial contact with them. The reporter whom Benjamin spoke to about the press pass contacted Yinger once, but has not followed up with him either.

As far as can be known by press reports, the Obama campaign has not been asked to comment on the behavior of one the campaign's top fundraisers committing identity theft and attempting to storm the stage during Palin's speech, nor has the campaign issued any statement of its own volition.

Englebach said the woman was sporting a media credential with the name of St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Jo Mannies.”George said, ‘Did you notice that woman had on a Jo Mannies tag?’” Engelbach said. “I got really mad. I know Jo Mannies and that wasn’t Jo Mannies. I went up to the cameraman and told him ‘This isn’t Jo Mannies.’ He didn’t seem to care so I leaned in to the man holding the mike and said, ‘She’s not Jo Mannies.’”

Engelbach said the Code Pink protestor hurriedly ripped the name tag off herself and tried to hide it.

“I told her it didn’t help to hide the name tag because she was already on camera,” Engelbach said. “I said, ‘She’s a fraud! This whole interview is a fraud.’”

Is she the same moron who ran down the steps at the RNC convention waving her hands in the air? I ask the question because some lunatic lefty on a blog made some nasty comment, believing that she was a Christian fundamentalist Republican praising Jesus and John McCain - I wish I had cut & pasted the post - but I was ROTFLMAO!!!

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